On 2004-05-23, Victor Munoz penned: > > Hello. Sometimes I've had an annoying problem when using mplayer > (currently using 1.0pre3-3.3.3) in sid. The basic problem is that I > eventually lose the sound while watching streaming video. Killing > mplayer, and trying to unload/load sound modules with modconf does not > work, since 'device or resorce busy', and I don't know what is the > problem, since mplayer is the only program trying to use sound. My > only solution is to reboot. Is there a cleaner way? > > A typical situation in which this happens is after succesfully > watching streaming video for over an hour (like yesterday!), data > download gets slower. That could be a server problem (I started > watching at about 7pm, Chilean time, and then problems appeared at > about 9pm, when probably more people was connecting to the server). > Since the video stopped, I killed mplayer, restarted it, but then I > could not get sound. I usually have to kill and restart mplayer, and I > don't have this problem. So the thing is, rather than trying to > identify the cause of the sound problem, I'd like to recover sound > without rebooting. >
Do you use esd for your sound? Sometimes esd just disappears on my system, and I need to restart it to get sound again. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
